교황 : 기독교인들은 동성애자들에게 사죄해야한다

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교황 프랜시스가 말하기를 기독교인들은 동성애자들과 그들이  이용해먹은 사람들에게 사죄하는 빚을 지고 있다고 말하고

카톨릭 교리는 동성애자들을 차별해서는 안되며 그들이 존중되어야 하며, 목양으로 동행되어야 한다는 것이다고 아르메니아에서 돌아오는 교황전용 비행기에서 말했다고 합니다.

교황은 또 유럽이 단결해야 하며, 브렉시트는 잘못되었다고도 말했습니다.

2023. 1. 26 하토브

Pope Francis said Sunday that Christians owe apologies to gays and others who have been offended or exploited by the church, remarks that some Catholics hailed as a breakthrough in the church’s tone toward homosexuality.

“I repeat what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: that they must not be discriminated against, that they must be respected and accompanied pastorally,” Francis said at a press conference aboard the papal plane returning from Armenia.

“The Church must ask forgiveness for not behaving many times – when I say the Church, I mean Christians! The Church is holy, we are sinners!”

As he often does during unscripted moments – particularly papal news conferences – the Pope spoke expansively, saying the church should seek forgiveness for a number of historical slights committed in its name.

Groundbreaking Moment

“I believe that the church not only should apologize to the person who is gay whom it has offended,” he added, “but has to apologize to the poor, to exploited women, to children exploited for labor; it has to ask forgiveness for having blessed many weapons.”

The Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor at large of America magazine, called the Pope’s apology to gays and lesbians “a groundbreaking moment.”

“While St. John Paul II apologized to several groups in 2000 – the Jewish people, indigenous peoples, immigrants and women, among them – no pope has ever come close to apologizing to the LGBT community. And the Pope is correct of course. First, because forgiveness is an essential part of the Christian life. And second, because no group feels more marginalized in the church today than LGBT people.”

The Pope’s comments came in response to a question about a German Cardinal who said the Catholic Church should apologize for being “very negative” about gays. The Pope was also asked whether Christians bear some blame for hatred toward the LGBT community, as horrifically demonstrated in the Orlando massacre at a gay night club that killed 49 people on June 12.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/26/world/pope-apologize-gays/index.html

Pope says Christians should apologize to gay people | CNN